Hand brake wheel



Nov. 24, 1931. T. K. CUMMINS 1,833,278

HAND BRAKE WHEEL Filed Jan. 25, 1929 i y'mwiiliililiill 4 Patented Nov. 24 1931 I UNITED STATES.

PATENT THOMAS K. oUMMINs, or ST. PAUL, MINNEsorA,;AssIeNoI To voR'rHnnN Mani-inherit: f

IRON COMPANY, on ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION OF-MINNESOTA I finnn BRAKE WHEEL Application filed January 25, 1929. Serial No."334,941

' My invention relates tohand brake wheels, particularly such as are used on hand brakes of railway freight cars. I

The principal object of the invention is to provide a hand brake wheel which maybe easily and inexpensively constructed a and readily operated by hand, but which will prevent the use of clubs by the brakeman in op crating the wheel to get more power on the brakes, a practice which'is objectionable, as

well known in the art.

' In the accompanying drawings:

Fig 1 is a view showing a hand brake wheel embodying my invention in cross section and also showing in elevation the upper portion of a brake rod on which the wheel is mounted,

the section in this figure being taken on line 1 -linFig.2; t a

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the wheeL. Referring to the drawings, I show a brake rod or staff 1, understood to, be mounted on a freight .car in any usual or preferred manner,

' and on the upper end of thisstafi' or shaft 1-, I

' other precipitation; these holes are preferrelatively'large, that is to say, of suificient l show a hand wheel 2 embodying my invention, the staff being for convenience provided with a an upper squareend 3 and a nut 4 being provided to hold the hand brake wheel in posi-v tion. p

The hand wheel 2 is preferably formed of a disk "11 with an upturned circumferential flange 10 provided with a series of openings .6 parallel with and concentric to the rim flange 10 to afford gripping the wheel more efleo tively.

'Drainholes 55 are provided the flat portion of the disk to carry off any rain or ablyformed in the disk 11 where they may be diameter toguard against their being frozen over and thereby cease to function and located on a line straddlingjthe center'of the openings 6.6. a

effective leverage impossibleJEach of these aperturesfi is surrounded by a flange or rib, i

theouter part 6* rising above, the general plane of thewebbed portion 11 and the inner part'or portion6? near the stalfl of this rib depending or extending below the web, so that the outer portion 6? is considerably higher than the inner portion 6*. Thus, if the club shown at 7 in dotted li'nesbe thrust through the opening 6 it will be prevented by these rib portions 6 and 6 from engaging the stafl l r r i so (see Fig. 1), so that the portion 8 of'the club 7 protrudmg through the opening" andIabove at any but adisadvantageous acute angle the wheelwillbe of such proportion with re- 1 spectto the portion 9 that no "substantial leverage will beaddedby thus using a club to operate the wheel for setting the brakes and will tendto discourage the practice which I is a harmful one, since the brake devices ofthis kind provide ample pressure of the brake shoe to the rail wheel if the hand wheel is grasped at the rim in the usual way. i

It willl be understood that changes and modifications may be made withoutdeparting from} the spirit of the invention.- k What I claim is:

forming between them connecting'members centralportions. V In witness whereof,"I hereunto subscribe my name this 22 day 'ofJanuary,-A. D., 1929.

V a THo As K. 'cUM Insqi a j A hand brake wheel having 'a substantially ,flat central portion and an elevated ri m'jportion and also having hand holes arranged within the inner edge of the 'rimportion and p so? for connecting the rim and centralportions, said connecting portions being inclined down-1 wardly" and inwardly between therimand 

